Christmas in Brighton
My first ever UK Christmas.
Journal archive: 2006
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And debate goes on
Civilised discourse on icons and data formats.
Life streams and Jaiku
A few of the things I’ve been writing about recently come together.
Today on 24 Ways
Drew has published a little article by me on his advent calendar.
Twitterlicious
A hit parade of throwaway remarks.
The language of accessibility
The power of language and semantics.
Bienen fliegen
An awards ceremony that means a damn.
Hauptstadt
I feel like I’m in a Wim Wenders film.
Flash On The Beach: day two
Good stuff from start to finish.
Ajax On The Beach
My talk at Flash On The Beach is over.
Flash On The Beach: day one
Art, code and business on one bill.
Northwest passage
Think you can’t afford to come to Web Directions North? Think again.
Museum piece
A roundup of resources tangentially related to museums and semantics.
Thinktanking
Discussing the meaning of meaning.
Fact eats fiction
Two novels, connected by prescience.
Flash on the beach
Brighton plays host to an unmissable Flash conference.
Chiaroscuropod
Product placement in 17th Century Dutch art.
More thoughts on portable social networks
The Web is about distribution, not centralisation.
Typographical tip for hCalendar
The en dash is your friend.
Casino Royale
Bond begins.
Twittering
The minor explosion of a social network.
To Cape Canaveral… and beyond!
I went behind the curtain at the Kennedy Space Center.
Refreshed
Wrapping up Refresh Orlando 2006.
Spoken
I delivered my spiel on microformats.
Or Land O
Live from Florida.
The heart of Midlothian
A weekend break in Scotland.
Put your money where Joe Clark’s mouth is
Joe finds me patronising.
Streaming my life away
Squishing RSS feeds together.
Geekend in Ironbridge
Five go to Shropshire… well, a lot more than five, actually.
Matrix locations in Sydney
Follow in the footsteps of Neo.
Microformats gone wild
You can’t swing a cat without hitting a microformat these days.
Laid low
Joyous guitar.
Beautiful hackery
An API-driven text adventure, accessible train times and hackable URLs; oh, yes.
Taking back the Web
A grandiose title for a cosy unconference.
Comments on comments
Examining the results of the comment experiment.
Pictorial Ajaxitagging
Now with added Flickry goodness.
Naked lunch conversations
Some distinguished visitors come to Brighton.
Talking ‘bout microformats
The triple bill of talks went smoothly.
London calling
London yesterday, London tomorrow… I’ve turned into a commuter.
Opera in London
Despite some technical hitches, I gave a pretentious little talk.
The man in blue sees red
Flickr and Photoshop shenanigans at Web Directions South.
Melbourne calling
I gave a talk for the Web Standards Group in Melbourne.
Sydney to Melbourne
It’s time for me to expand my Australian horizons.
Wrapping up Web Directions South
Two thumbs up from me.
Halfway through Web Directions South
Day one is over, and what a day it was!
One talk down, one to go
Web Directions South 2006 is in full swing.
Web Directions South
Australia, here I come.
The comments of crowds
Comments are enabled… but with a twist.
Speaking at d.Construct
Happy happy, joy joy.
Backnetworking
This is my honour roll: it was an honour to meet these people.
Fables of the dConstruction
A whirlwind weekend of geeky goodness in Brighton.
Simon and Paul
APIs are good for business.
d.Construct travel news
Bloody trains.
Inspecting Morse
Can’t stop the signal.
d.Construct events
A pre-conference booze-up, a mapping workshop, and a microformats picnic.
The unflappable Duke
A snapshot of life in the Clearleft office.
Werewolves of London
BarCamp London was a scream.
Microformats triple bill
Three microformateers at BarCamp London.
Virtual trainspotting
A mashup of trains and maps blows my mind at Barcamp.
Live from Barcamp London
I spent the day at Barcamp pointing a microphone into people’s faces.
Iteravely Upcoming
Softly, softly, designy website.
dConstructing the network
Microformatted social networking goodness for dConstruct.
A Scanner Darkly
The most faithful Philip K.Dick adaptation yet.
Feedback
Send me an odeo.
API changes
Heads up. Flickr and Del.icio.us have made some changes.
Ajaxitagging
I’ve smeared some Ajaxy API calls all over my journal entries.
Journalism
Some pictures I took are in the Daily Telegraph.
BarCamp London
A slumber party for geeks.
V for Vendetta
The film of the graphic novel.
Happy Birthday, WWW
Many happy returns.
Webstock podcast
I wrapped up some MP3s in a feed.
Fixtorati
Technorati redesigns in a rigid kind of way.
September is the coolest month
A month of globe-spanning webucation.
Mixed signals
Design isn’t just about eye-candy. Bad design kills.
I’d like to buy the world an iPod
Noise annoys
Podcasting d.Construct 2006
I’m making my first foray into the world of podcasting.
The unpushed envelope
Isn’t it high time we started using CSS to its fullest?
For want of a nail…
…the kingdom was lost.
Mashing up with microformats
I’ve transcribed the text of the microformats panel I sat in on at South by Southwest.
Ajax workshop in NYC
Learn DOM Scripting and Ajax in the Big Apple.
Back from @media
Much fun was had.
Off to @media
I’m heading to London.
Podcasts and the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a handy place to store creative commons licensed audio files.
A tipping point for microformats
Something tiny this way comes.
Knowledge
Brighton misses Joe Clark.
Reflection
I reflect on a design trend possibly started by Apple.
Random
Yeah, right.
Reboot
Reboot is over. It was fun.
Spoken
I spoke at Reboot. A written version is now online.
Reboot 8, day 1, second part
The fun begins as the sun goes down.
Reboot 8, day 1, first part
A quick update from Copenhagen.
Copenhagen
I’m off to Denmark for the Reboot conference.
That syncing feeling
I’ve been getting my emails, contacts and calendars in order.
Ex-tech
The XTech 2006 conference provided plenty of food for thought.
The ugly American
Paul Graham…. wankah!
The Empire Moves House
Moving house, one lego spaceship at a time.
Moving
Before heading off to Amsterdam, I need to get all my worldly belongings into my new flat.
The waste (memory wastes)
Grant McLennan RIP
Helvetican crossing
I’m taking a trip down memory lane, Freiburg, Germany via Basel, Switzerland.
A quick theological question
Riddle me this.
How to Be a Web Design Underwear Pervert
The presentation by the two Andies has been brought into line with pending trademark applications.
Natural language hCard
You can use the hCard microformat in plain English sentences.
Print stylesheets
Some advice for presenting your content on the printed page.
Transcribing podcasts
Making podcasts accessible.
Bite Size Vitamin
Help yourself to a rich serving of web dev resources.
Oddcasting
It’s weird repeatedly hearing your name when you’re trying to listen to podcasts.
Bedroll
Not a blogroll.
Adactio, pour homme
The perfume of the movie of the website… you read it here first.
Dichotomy
Not everything is black and white.
Further comment
Following up on the comments controversy.
Bootcampilicious
Holy shit!
Naked
Dustin Diaz has a lot to answer for.
When mashups attack
Starring George Clooney.
Upcoming webolution
Upcoming.org has added some nifty new features.
Prime yourself
Some tips for when (not if) you see the film Primer.
Simple Storage Service
Amazon’s newest web service has no face, but I think it’s got legs.
Darwinian webolution
Websites aren’t built; they’re grown.
Wordridden revisited
Jessica’s site has undergone a transformation.
Design, old and new
A panel at SXSW reminds me of one of the best non-web redesigns of recent times.
Talking about microformats
How a harmless mashup landed me a place on a panel at SXSW.
Gladwell in Gatwick
I become a fanboy in an airport.
A proper podcast for South by Southwest 2006
Jason Landry has rolled his own RSS feed for us.
Back from Austin
The whirlwind that is South by SouthWest is over.
Comments on community
Be careful what you wish for when you’re building social software: not all communities are beneficial.
Adactio Austin
Party like it’s SXSW06
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Less is more.
Carson Summit Podcast
Ryan provided MP3s and I’ve wrapped them up in an RSS file.
A week in Munster
I’m back from Ireland and I bring pictures.
The green, green grass of home
I’m going to Ireland for a week.
Winding down
The last few days have been a whirlwind of geeky goodness.
Panel discussion at The Future Of Web Apps summit
Apparently, there’s going to be a big announcement from Feedburner.
Steffen Meschkat at The Future Of Web Apps summit
The Googleman talks Ajax.
Ryan Carson at The Future Of Web Apps summit
Ryan talks about Dropsend and building web apps on a budget.
Andrew Shorten at The Future Of Web Apps summit
The man from Adobe pimps Flex.
Shaun Inman at The Future Of Web Apps summit
The Wolf talks about minty APIs.
David Heinemeier Hansson at The Future Of Web Apps summit
The creator of Rails gets geeky.
Tom Coates at The Future Of Web Apps summit
The blogger recently acquired by Yahoo! talks about Web 2.0
Cal Henderson at The Future Of Web Apps summit
Cal talks about the lessons of Flickr.
Joshua Schachter at The Future Of Web Apps summit
A running commentary on the talk from the founder of del.icio.us
Buzzword Bingo
I’ve made a game to liven up any buzzword-laden conference.
Everything old is new again
I’ve switch CMSs for this site. It’s still home-rolled.
Four listless things
My sore throat has turned into a full-blown cold. My vulnerable immune system has left me susceptible to memes and, wouldn’tchya know it, I’ve gone and caught one from Rob and Steve.
Met so blue
It’s been a busy weekend here at Chez J&J. Following in the footsteps of fellow Canadians, Derek and Joe, Dave came to visit.
Backlash 2.0
Wintertime… and the coding ain’t easy. Sharks are jumping and the bubble is high.
Term extractor
There are a lot of little coding things I’d like to play around with. I have a whole Ta-da list of ideas to investigate and rummage through. Unfortunately, real life tends to get in the way, sucking away all my available time so that few, if any, of
By the time I get back from Phoenix
I’m back from Arizona and my nose is firmly pressed against the grindstone here in Brighton.
Faster, more intense
George Lucas is infamous for providing limited direction to his actors. His advice generally consists of: